Bilateral Gigantomastia, Multiple Synchronous Nodular Pseudoangiomatous Stromal Hyperplasia Involving Breast and Bilateral Axillary Accessory Breast Tissue, and Perianal Mammary-Type Hamartoma of Anogenital Mammary-Like Glands: A Case Report.

Mammary-type fibroepithelial lesions involving ectopic breast and anogenital region are rare and usually coexist with normal orthotopic breast. We present what we believe to be a unique case of synchronous bilateral gestational gigantomastia resembling fibrous mastopathy, synchronous rapidly growing pregnancy-associated nodular pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia involving right breast and bilateral axillary ectopic breast tissue, and metachronous perianal mammary-type hamartoma involving anogenital mammary-like glands occurring in a 34-year-old patient with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Also, we review the literature concerning these lesions.

[Predictive factors for non-sentinel lymph nodes affection in breast carcinoma--outcomes of a Czech multicenter study of sentinel lymph nodes].

Background: The aim of the study was to assess positivity nonsentinel lymph nodes in patients with macro, micro and submicrometastases in sentinel lymph nodes and find predictive factors of positivity nonsentinel lymph nodes. Study was conducted at the Department of Surgery in Pardubice, Pilsen, Ostrava and Zlín.

Material And Methods: Sentinel lymph nodes were assessed based on standards of Czech Pathological Society.

[Difficult diagnosis of breast carcinoma].

The breast carcinoma is the most frequent cancer in women. The diagnosis has certain rules but sometimes it brings diagnostic difficulties. The aim of this article is to point out specific cases of breast cancer and to transmit our practical experience with the situations when ordinary diagnostic methods failed.

[Breast carcinoma in a female patient after kidney transplantation--a case review].

Introduction: Kidney transplantation improves the quality of life in patients with chronic renal insufficiency. Immunosuppression therapy has a significant impact on good quality long-term function of the transplanted kidney and on the long-term survival of the patients. However, long-term administration of immunosuppressives may be associated with a number of complications.

[Harmatoma of the breast--case report].

Objective: To describe rare hamartoma of the breast in a 31-year-old female.

Design: Case report.

Settings: Department of Special Diagnostics SPAU, Charles University Hospital Pilsen.

[The peroperative biopsy--an overview of its problematical aspects from the pathologist's viewpoint].

A summary work presenting technically difficult to process lesion samples and those which cannot be diagnosed on peroperative biopsy. The authors specify arguments against examinations of small mammary gland tumors (measuring less than 1 cm in diameter), post-bioptic tumors and sentinel lymph nodes. Furthermore, the authors describe difficulties in processing the adipose tissue resulting in complicated evaluation of the mammary gland tumors in the resection line.

[Is liver resection or radiofrequency ablation indicated in breast carcinoma metastases?].

Aim: Until recently, metastasizing of the breast carcinoma to the liver has been considered the sign of the disease process generalization with a poor therapeutic prognosis. Therefore, the aim of this work was to assess any positive effects of liver resections in cases of patients with metastases with respect to the patients' survival rate and the relapse rate of the disorder.

Methodology: From January 2000 until September 2003, 13 women aged 55.

[Clinical importance of determination of tumor markers during follow-up in breast carcinoma].

Background: Paper deals with detection of the early disease progression in breast cancer patients during follow up using tumor markers.

Methods And Results: The basic group of 1184 patients with breast carcinoma in follow up after primary therapy were examined from 1996 to 2002. Sera were tested using commercial kits CA 15-3 (MEIA, Abbot), CEA (IRMA, Immunotech), TPA (IRMA, Byk Sangtec), TPS (IRMA, Beki).

[Malignant thyroid tumor surgery at the Surgery Clinic of the Medical School Hospital in Pilsen 1987-1991].

At the surgical clinic of the Faculty Hospital in Plzen in 1987-1991 a total of 230 operations of the thyroid gland were performed in 227 patients, incl., 30 operations on account of malignancies in 27 patients. The presented study is focused on malignant diseases.